Full Stack Javascript Engineer

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JW Player is the world's most widely-adopted web video player, generating more than 15 billion video streams monthly. We power the video of Little Things, Refinery29, Apartment Therapy, Washington Post, Vice, and more.

As a Full Stack Javascript Engineer on the Player team in our NYC Headquarters, you will help build innovative features while maintaining our industry-leading player speed and performance. You will join the team’s efforts to manage the adaptive and secure streaming media player for browsers, Chromecast devices, devices that support spherical (360) videos as well as the API that serves the player library and other assets needed for media playback.

The Player team’s technology stack leverages HTML5, CSS and Javascript features like Media Source Extensions (MSE) and Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and on the backend we write Python and Node.js.

We support all major browsers and work closely with browser vendors and specification writers to design and incorporate new technologies while serving as core contributors to the HLS.js open source project.

Our Engineers enjoy the freedom and autonomy to work on projects they find interesting, and are encouraged to bring their own ideas to the table.

It is JW Player's mission to provide the type of video experience that helps our customers grow audiences and monetize their content, and we’re looking for passionate and motivated engineers to help us do it!

We need your help with...

  • Owning all aspects of the software development life cycle: planning, architecture, design, implementation, deployment and support
  • Designing and implementing a containerized RESTful API that serves JavaScript assets
  • Full stack performance tuning to provide a seamless playback experience
  • Instrumenting the backend API to monitor for performance degradation or outages

...so that we can continue to delight our customers!If you have...

  • 3+ years of relevant software development experience
  • Strong JavaScript, HTTP, object oriented design and programming skills
  • Working knowledge of JavaScript tooling and package management (Webpack, Babel, NPM, Yarn, etc.)
  • Experience with modular JavaScript, functional paradigms and Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Experience writing RESTful APIs with Node.js
  • Experience with debugging and profiling JavaScript applications in major browsers

...we’d love for you to join our team!If these interest you…

  • ES6/ES7, Node.js, Typescript
  • Streaming video concepts
  • OTT services (Apple TV, Google Chromecast, etc.)
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
  • Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Docker)
  • Contributing to browser standards and

...then you’ve come to the right place!

About JW Player

JW Player pioneered video on the web over a decade ago and continues to innovate as the world’s largest network-independent platform for video delivery and intelligence. Media companies including Fox, VICE, Business Insider, and Univision, in addition to hundreds of thousands of creators of all types and sizes, rely on JW Player to deliver and monetize their content across all devices. JW Player’s massive global footprint of over 2 billion unique devices creates a powerful data graph of unique consumer insights and generates billions of incremental video views. The company is headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Eindhoven, and was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ in 2017. For more information, visit http://www.jwplayer.com

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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JW Player is located two blocks behind Bryant Park. Close to the Bryant Park and Times Square subway stations.

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